View Full Version : My turn, I guess...
Here we go, then... since I got it up and running a whole lot quicker than I was anticipating.
It's a music magazine-type site, mainly based around rock but will undoubtedly feature other kinds of music at some point.
http://www.riot-act.co.uk
Feedback is always welcome... but please bear in mind that the design is simple for artistic purposes and not because I'm bad at coding.
Well, OK, I admit I'm not great at coding, but... yeah. I'll shut up now. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
John.
pgosling
27-01-2006, 08:40 AM
Nice, just a few things though.
Personally I hate the "system" font you are using as a logo......
I would make the forum use similar colours to your main pages.
Apart from that, its good, can see that the site will have some good reviews and articles on there in time to come..........just make sure it is regularly updated, as it will go stale very quickly if it is not!!
Keep up the good work style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif
Carl Shepherdson
27-01-2006, 08:46 AM
I agree with Peter, a new font for the title would work well.
Also - Is there any particular reason you are using a free hosting forum? Did you know you can host forums on your webspace ad'free? style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
Apart from that, it's not a bad site coding looks quite tidy, you have used CSS, and you have linked to CS New Media! Thanks! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif
But the main thing is the font at the top...
Well done, and keep us updated style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Had a quick surf and noticed you dont specify a background colour .
Not everybody uses the default windows white & its easily fixed with a single line in your stylesheet .
E.G.
IN YOUR STYLESHEET .....
.riotbg{background-color: #FFFFFF;}
IN YOUR WEBPAGE .....
<body text="Red" link="Red" vlink="Red" alink="Red" class="riotbg">
It also has the advantage if you ever want to change the background colour to something else - then you only need to make a single change in the stylesheet colour to make a global change that affects the whole website .
Suggest you use the following grey colour when first making the changes to your website - then when everything is done change it to #FFFFFF before uploading to your webspace .
.riotbg{background-color: #C0C0C0;}
Nick Irvine
27-01-2006, 05:59 PM
Hi John,
Good to see you are building up content in your reviews area, remember it is this sort of content that will keep people coming back, so once you get the visitors try not to lose them.. engross them in content.
Maybe ask for other reviews? build up a team behind the site.
Yeah, I'm kinda tempted to change the image at the top with the 'system' font you're referring to - actually it's 'Nokia Cellphone', but that's a minor point. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
It was intended to go along with the simple feel of the page, but it doesn't work so well since I changed the way I did the menu links - they were originally transparent images with tiny white writing; I wrote into the CSS to make them go black on hovering over but it didn't play nicely with Firefox so I canned them and just used text instead.
I'm not sure what you mean about not specifying a background colour - the first line of my CSS begins with this:
body {background-color: white;
...perhaps I need to have another look at it?
So, all in all, cheers for the feedback! style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif I've got loads more reviews to put up (I have them published on another site but obviously as they're my property I can use them) so that'll keep going for a while - I've also got friends who are willing to contribute, so hopefully it'll keep going on and on...
Oh, also... the reason I'm using a free hosted forum is because I originally intended to start building a community and then eventually (i.e. over the next few months) build a site around it. It was only the next day that I decided I'd just get straight on with it.
I did try to set up a forum on my webspace afterwards (just to see if I could do it) but by that point I was half asleep so I ended up abandoning it. Might give it another go at some point though, if only because I can't customise the current one as much as I'd like.
John.
Carl Shepherdson
28-01-2006, 01:16 AM
Sure, it's very easy infact we have a post on this forum a 'How to' install PHPBB.
You can also backup your database of the free forum and restore it to your own hosted forum style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif
Well Done anyway,
I'm now hosting my own forum. Thanks for your nice clear instructions, the ones on the phpBB support site just confused things immensely.
Annoyingly, I can't transfer anything at the moment because the free hosted one doesn't allow you to back up the database. I found a topic on the host's support forum regarding this problem, so I've posted in there and emailed the administrator in the hope that they'll be able to do it for me (as they've done for others). From there, it should be easy to restore the database into my hosted forum - I've seen a Flash demo of how to do it and it seems really simple.
So yes, I'm not actually using the forum at the moment, though hopefully it won't be long before I can. The free hosted one still remains for the moment.
Oh, and: I'm intending to put more reviews up tonight, though this will depend on whether or not I go out. It is Saturday, after all. style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif
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